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Jammu: A police personnel of the bomb disposal squad was killed and two others injured in a powerful blast on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway at Lower Manda in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on September 1 , official sources said.

The explosion occurred when bomb disposal squad personnel were trying to defuse an improvised explosive device (IED), the sources said, adding one cop was killed and two others injured.

Earlier, a road opening party detected the IED at Lower Manda, 500 metres from Jawahar Tunnel on the national highway on September 1 morning, the sources said.

However, there was no damage to Jawahar Tunnel as the blast took place 500 to 700 metres away from the tunnel, the sources said.

PTI